Our Opportunity
Chewy is seeking a Senior Editor, Automation & Content Optimization to help shape the future of our editorial content across PetMD and Chewy Education. This role sits at the intersection of editorial excellence, data-driven decision-making, and emerging AI capabilities. You'll play a critical role in ensuring our pet health and educational content is timely, discoverable, and optimized for performance across web, email, and social channels.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced editor who thrives in a fast-paced publishing environment, embraces new technologies, and knows how to turn insights into action.
What You'll Do
- Lead optimization efforts across a large library of pet health and educational content, improving performance in search, email engagement, social distribution, and referral optimization.
- Partner with SEO, analytics, and marketing teams to identify opportunities and respond quickly to changes.
- Work closely with product teams and engineering to build AI-powered tools to streamline workflows, identify optimization opportunities, and enhance editorial output.
- Help develop and reinforce high quality standards that center human expertise in the context of an AI-enabled work flow.
- Optimize articles, headlines, metadata, formatting, and content structure for SEO, engagement, and conversion to product sales.
- Collaborate with social and email teams to adapt editorial content for multi-channel distribution.
- Balance speed and quality, ensuring content updates are accurate, brand-aligned, and trustworthy.
Who You Are
- You have 5-7 years of experience in digital publishing, editorial, or content strategy, ideally within health, lifestyle, or e-commerce environments.
- You are highly comfortable working with SEO best practices, including keyword strategy, on-page optimization, and performance analysis.
- You have hands-on experience with AI tools (e.g., content optimization platforms, generative AI, automation workflows) and understand how to apply them responsibly in an editorial setting.
- You bring a process orientation and product mindset to the content space.
- You are data-driven and comfortable using analytics tools to inform decisions.
- You have a proven ability to move quickly and prioritize effectively, especially in response to real-time traffic or performance changes.
- You understand how content behaves across multiple channels, including organic search, email newsletters, and social media platforms.
- You are detail-oriented, with strong editing skills and a commitment to accuracy and clarity.
- You are collaborative and communicative, able to work cross-functionally with editorial, SEO, product, and marketing teams.
Bonus
- Experience working with health or veterinary content.
- Familiarity with content management systems and large-scale content libraries.
- Experience building or refining automated editorial processes.
- Understanding of E-E-A-T principles and content quality standards in regulated or trust-sensitive categories.
About Chewy
Pet parents rely on Chewy and PetMD for trustworthy, actionable information. As the digital landscape evolves, so does how we create, distribute, and optimize that content. This role is key to ensuring our content not only reaches the right audience but continues to perform and adapt over time.
If you're excited about blending editorial expertise with technology and data-and want to make a meaningful impact on how pet parents access information-we'd love to hear from you.
The base salary range for this role is $78,500 - $118,000.00.
- The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate's relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.
We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.
Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.
Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact [email protected].
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How does Chewy ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Chewy approaches compensation through a total rewards strategy that combines salary, bonuses, equity opportunities, healthcare benefits, employee discounts, and career growth opportunities. The company emphasizes supporting employees across ecommerce, healthcare, pharmacy, customer service, technology, and fulfillment operations while competing for talent in both retail and tech markets.
Competitive compensation and bonus opportunities: Chewy offers market-based compensation packages that may include salary, performance bonuses, commissions, and equity depending on role and level. Built In also notes benefits such as relocation assistance, employee discounts, and bonus opportunities across multiple teams and functions.
- Healthcare and wellness support: Benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA/FSA options, life insurance, disability coverage, telemedicine, mental health resources, and wellbeing programs. Chewy also offers wellness-focused resources designed to support employees physically, mentally, and financially.
- Retirement and financial wellbeing: Employees receive 401(k) plans with company matching along with financial wellness resources and broader support programs. Benefits are designed to support both short-term needs and long-term financial planning.
- Pet-focused and family-oriented benefits: Chewy offers pet insurance discounts, employee discounts on Chewy products, parental leave, fertility support, family-focused benefits, and caregiving resources. The company’s benefits package is closely aligned with its pet-focused identity and customer mission.
- Flexibility and workplace support: Corporate employees may have access to hybrid work arrangements, flexible scheduling, commuter benefits, PTO, paid holidays, and wellbeing initiatives. Employees also cite supportive managers and collaborative teams as important parts of the broader employee value proposition.
- Long-term career investment: Compensation is reinforced through career growth opportunities, mentorship, leadership development, cross-functional learning, and exposure to large-scale ecommerce, automation, healthcare, and logistics initiatives. Employees often describe growth opportunities as an important part of the overall company experience.
- External signals: Comparably reports that 70% of employee reviews are positive overall. Employees frequently highlight healthcare benefits, employee discounts, coworkers, and growth opportunities as strengths of the company experience. (Glassdoor; Comparably)
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Who We Are Chewy is where pet parents find everything they need for life with pets, from food to fun to pharmacy. We make pet care easier, more informed, and more joyful through fast, reliable delivery and award-winning 24/7 Customer Care, including access to pet health support when it’s needed. Founded in 2011, Chewy combines the convenience of online shopping with a high-touch, personalized experience built around the real moments of pet parenthood. Our Mission Chewy’s mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere. What We Do We support pet parents through the highs, lows, and everyday moments of the pet parenting journey with: • Pet food, treats, and daily essentials • Supplies for dogs, cats, fish, birds, reptiles, equine, and small pets • Pharmacy and veterinary services, including prescriptions and medications • Pet wellness and health products • Autoship for convenient recurring deliveries • Chewy+, our premium membership offering exclusive savings, faster delivery, and personalized pet care benefits • 24/7/365 customer support from knowledgeable, pet-loving experts What Makes Chewy Different Chewy is known for industry-leading service, deep personalization, and our customer-obsessed culture. We combine trust, convenience, and care, and pet parents come to us for: • Exceptional customer care • Human- and pet-centered product and experience design • Fast, dependable fulfillment across a nationwide operations network • A mission-driven culture built on empathy, trust, and passion for pets Our Culture Chewy’s culture is built for people who thrive on ownership, innovation, and impact. We value curiosity, creativity, and continuous improvement across all our teams. We empower Team Members—our Chewtopians—to learn, grow, and unleash their full potential in a collaborative, supportive, mission-driven environment. How We Work Chewy’s Operating Principles guide how we think, innovate, collaborate, and execute. These principles shape our character, decision-making, and approach to delivering results while connecting our people and culture in support of our mission. Where We Work Chewy headquarters: Plantation, FL, and Boston, MA Additional hubs: Bellevue, WA, and Minneapolis, MN
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